Our pavilion was super-hit by evening. We entertained more than 100 kids, all of whom were taught how to use an Edubuntu desktop, how to draw pictures on Tux Paint, and how to use the different educational tools. The kids absolutely loved it!
BLUA volunteers entertained numerous newbie Linux users as well, whom we gave suggestions and solutions to their OS problems.
A big day for me, as it was the first time I’ve ever spoken on a seminar. The seminar was entitled “Free and Open Source Software: Development Opportunities”, and was jointly organised by BCS and BLUA.
Sumon bhai from BDCOM, Kamal bhai from CSE department of Dhaka University, and Sami bhai from Maisha Technologies spoke at the seminar, and I delivered my keynote speech. Welcome speech was provided by BCS President as it was the inaugural seminar of the Computer Show.
Location: 1st floor, Bashani Novo Theater
Time: 13:00 BDT (+6 GMT)
State of mind: Annoying
When all the stalls and pavilions were selling or exhibiting their products, we were sitting idle on the floor of our empty pavilion. No chair to sit, no desk to keep our tech gadgets, and no electrical outlets to recharge ours laptops or the cell phones. HP’s pavilion was right in front of ours, and all we could do was to stare at two of their hot looking sales girls. Staring at the Samsung’s salesgirls was an option too, as two out of three girls were desperately trying to show their cleavage and their bra’s strap. Cream bra goes well with blue saari, I understood.
We kept on poking the BCS officials, and after one and half hour, our desks and the tables arrived. After waiting for another two more hours, the computers arrived. We didn’t had any other decoration piece on the stall, except for the hand drawn Tux replica that Shipar sent.
We started installing Edubuntu on the 700 MHz Toshiba computers, and it a took a long time to do so. Kubuntu refused to accept mouse clicks, and system continuously displayed busy error.
Zia bhai and his friend, Rafiq bhai, Muhib bhai, Farhan, and Rony helped enormously, and I thank them all for helping out.
I met BDCOM’s Managing Director Sumon Ahmed Sabir today, who happens to be one the most respected and talented person in Bangladeshi ISP industry.
I first met him at BCS office, and then went over to his place in the evening to discuss about BLUA’s plans and initiatives. He is a great guy, and I really enjoyed talking to him. Sumon bhai agreed to sponsor our Mirror Server Project, which will come up after BCS Computer Show is over. He also agreed to be present on the seminar that we organised on 18th. Sumon bhai rocks!
Did you guys knew that various baseball terms are used as sexual slangs to describe the level of physical intimacy? It’s kinda cool, and here are the most commonly used ones:
An easy way to remember this using four F’s: french, feel, finger, and fuck.
Thanks to Sarah for enlightening me with this interesting info. 
Here’s a handy command that I use to delete unwanted files from my office file server:
find . -iname “filename.ext” -exec rm -fv {} \;
-> . means start with current directory
-> -iname means match the file mask in a case sensitive manner
-> “filename.ext” is the desired file name
-> -exec means run this command when a match is found
-> rm -fv command deletes the file verbosely, without asking
-> {} will be replaced with the name of the file found
-> \; is the command terminator
Change the “filename.ext” part of the command to suit your requirements. For me, it’s “*.exe”, “*.mp3″, and “thumbs.db”. Leave the quotes as it is.
